What problem does it solve?
The meetings skill helps engineering managers stop wasting team focus on unnecessary or poorly run meetings by deciding what to keep, kill, shorten, or redesign—and by diagnosing what went wrong in a specific meeting.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Meeting decision support: Determine whether a request should be a meeting, an async doc, a shortened session, or a redesign based on meeting type (decision, problem-solving, buy-in, or information sharing) and whether the decision-maker is present.
- Practical facilitation guidance: Create a written agenda, ensure preparation happens ahead of time, keep discussion on track, drive toward an actual decision, and end with clear follow-through.
- Focus-time protection: Reduce calendar fragmentation by batching, shortening by default, and scheduling outside high-productivity windows to minimize maker-block disruption.
- Recurring meeting cleanup: Identify and remove rituals that have outlived their purpose, including a quarterly “Why are we still doing this?” review habit.
- Meeting review from transcript or description: Evaluate the meeting across purpose, attendance, preparation, facilitation, and follow-through, then recommend one or two concrete improvements.
Quick Start
Tell the AI: “I’m drowning in meetings and engineers can’t focus—help me reduce them and redesign my recurring syncs.”